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Ohio Gov. John Kasich is sick of his fellow Republican challengers  seriously. Do you know how crazy this election is? Let me tell you something, Ive about had it with these people, he told supporters at an Ohio rally Tuesday, according to a transcript provided by NBC News. Kasich, who is viewed as a moderate

Travis Gettys A New York City police officer has been accused of using a banned chokehold to take down a skateboarder during an arrest captured on video. Yibin Mu, of Queens, posted the video Monday on YouTube showing the officer grab and throw him to the ground during the incident about 5 p.m. Sunday in

It happens so often in classrooms that its almost unremarkable. A student sends a text during class, plays a video game on an iPad or mouths off, drawing a reprimand from the teacher. Then what? At Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., a similar scenario ended Monday when a white sheriffs deputy  summoned after

In 1994, when a voter asked gubernatorial candidate Jeb Bush what he would do for black Floridians if elected governor, the young politician replied, Probably nothing. That was Bushs first campaign for office, where he presented himself as a head-banging conservative who largely ignored minority voters, wanted to eliminate excess and sought to shake up the

Alex Hern, The Guardian Festival has offered to reinstate one of the panels it cancelled after threats of violence and is reportedly considering an all-day event on the topic Austins South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival is considering an all-day event that focuses primarily on combatting online harassment, in an attempt to quell the anger over the festivals

Alison Flood, The Guardian In a second live public interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson, the US premier says fiction helps us to find truth in a complex world Barack Obama has said that novels taught him the most important things he has learned about being a citizen. Interviewing Marilynne Robinson in the second instalment of

Travis Gettys Author J.K. Rowling used a scene from her seventh and final Harry Potter novel to explain why she would not join the Israel cultural boycott  despite her strong opposition to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his policies. The best-selling author signed an open letter last week with more than 150 other British

WOODBRIDGE  A Muslim student who graduated from Colonia High School last spring claims the Woodbridge School Board declined to take action against a fellow student who posted a photo of her on social media with the word Isis. The school board, however, says the incident was investigated and a perpetrator could not be found. After

A middle school in Dunbar, West Virginia, was placed on lockdown Tuesday after a man walked into the school and demanded that he sing Justin Bieber songs to students over the intercom. Dunbar Police charged Dlaonte Dee Lewis with simple possession for a small amount of marijuana after he entered the main office of Dunbar Middle

Democratic presidential candidate and self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernard Sanders said Tuesday that American voters will stop being afraid of socialism and embrace it once he explains how many government benefits they would get. Our job is to make people aware that programs like Social Security, Medicare, the National Park system, which is a wonderful system,

A prominent Florida newspaper has called on Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio to resign from his position as a United States senator for Florida, CNN reported Wednesday. In an editorial published Tuesday night, the Sun Sentinel blasted the politician for ripping off the people of Florida, citing that he is being paid $174,000 with taxpayer money

Travis Gettys Everybody knows politicians lie sometimes  but we usually assume theyre being dishonest to make themselves look better. So who knows what the hell Ben Carson is trying to accomplish by claiming he tried to stab a guy, attacked people with hammers or sent an armed robber after a fast food cashier? The